Chirag Gander can breathe much easier now than he did a few days ago atop Uhuru peak, the highest point in Africa at 19,341 feet. The weather was minus 15 degrees Celsius and the oxygen was "just 40 per cent of what we have on the ground," said the young entrepreneur, recalling his Kilimanjaro climb in Tanzania, which he began on February 3. It was "a challenging and philosophical journey" for the co-founder of The Minimalist, a design and digital consultancy in Andheri.

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"A year ago I realised that in the rush of starting my company, in the frenetic pace of work, I had neglected my health. I then decided to work out at a gym and started looking very seriously at my diet. A little more than a year ago, I could not climb a mountain of a 500m, a year later, I decided Uhuru was going to be my test," said Gander, an alumnus of IIT Bombay.